Design of a universal reversible bidirectional current switch based on the fullerene-phthalocyanine supramolecular
Dongdong Qi1, Lijuan Zhang, Liang Wan
1Beijing Key Laboratory for Science and Application of Functional Molecular and Crystalline Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
A novel bidirectional current ON-OFF switch controlled by electron injection and deprivation was proposed on the basis of the density functional theory (DFT) calculation over a fullerene-phthalocyanine supramolecular system PcCoC(60) for the first time. The electron density for PcCoC(60) was revealed to move from fullerene to phthlocyanine only in the oxidized form and from phthlocyanine to fullerene only in the reduced form, reaching the control of electron movement direction by changing the oxidation state of this supramolecular system.
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